Entertaining Miss Austen / Amanda Pitt, John Lofthouse, David Owen Norris

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Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• David Norris (Piano)
• Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• John Lofthouse

Composers

• James Hook (1746 - 1827)
• George Kiallmark (1781 - 1835)
• Anne Thicknesse (1737 - 1824)
• Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari (1759 - 1842)
• Anonymous, English
• Johann Baptist Cramer (1771 - 1858)
• Mattias Holst (1769 - 1854)
• English Traditional
• Stephen Storace (1762 - 1796)
• Tommaso Giordani (1733 - 1806)
• Edward Smith Biggs
• Michael Kelly (Composer) (1762 - 1826)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
• Harriett Abrams (1758 - 1821)
• French Traditional
• Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Georgiana Cavendish (1757 - 1806)

Notes & Reviews:

This fascinating new Dutton recording features the first recordings of Jane Austen's three favorite songs - and a dozen more premières, including the first chance to hear the only piece of music specifically mentioned in the novels. The piano featured on these recordings is an 1817 Broadwood grand signed by the composer J.B. Cramer. Broadwood is the only make of piano, and Cramer the only composer, mentioned by Jane Austen in Emma (1815). The pieces recorded here are drawn from seventeen music albums that belonged to Jane Austen and her female relations. Performers include soprano Amanda Pitt, baritone John Lofthouse and pianist David Owen Norris.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009).

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Works Details

Holst, Mattias : Fairy Dance, for piano

• Performer: David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Original Canzonettas Book 2, H 26a

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1795

Hook, James : One half o' the world, for voice & piano

• Performer: John Lofthouse
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Traditional, English : O Waly, Waly, folk song

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: circa 1765

Abrams, Harriett : Crazy Jane, for voice & piano

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal

Kiallmark, George : Robin Adair, theme & variations for piano

• Performer: David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 5 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Storace, Stephen : Captivity

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Traditional, French : Que j'aime à voir les hirondelles, song

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Form: Vocal

Thicknesse, Anne : Fandango, for piano

• Performer: David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Giordani, Tommaso : Queen Mary's Lamentation

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 4 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Burns, Robert : Song from Burns, for voice & piano

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal

Ferrari, Giacomo G. : African Song, for voice & piano

• Performer: John Lofthouse
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal

Biggs, Edward Smith : Hindoo Airs (12)

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Handel, George Frideric : Rodelinda :: Overture

• Performer: David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1725

Anonymous, English : The Irishman

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.

Kelly, Michael : The Wife's Farewell, for voice & piano

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Kelly, Michael : The Husband's Return, for voice & piano

• Performer: John Lofthouse
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Traditional, English : Nobody coming to marry me, song

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Form: Vocal

Cavendish, Georgiana : I Have A Silent Sorrow, for voice & baroque guitar

• Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Hook, James : The Whim of the Day, for voice & piano

• Performer: John Lofthouse
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Classical

Cramer, Johann Baptist : Les petits riens, for harpsichord

• Performer: David Norris (Piano)
• Notes: Music Room at Hatchlands, Surrey, England (11/18/2009-11/19/2009)
• Running Time: 7 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic